Hibernation or Coma? You Decide!

With winter's shorter days, sometimes a nap or good night's sleep is what we need. Taken to extremes, that could lead to Hibernation or Coma! Try these novels with characters who experience long and longer sleep.

Updated February 6, 2025
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Overkill
Brown, Sandra
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller in which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their lives.   Former Super...
Galway confidential
Bruen, Ken
Paper Book
In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns. Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the...
Lost fleet : dauntless
Campbell, Jack.
Paper Book
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series! The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation...
Thicker than water : a novel
Collins, Megan
Paper Book
In this "twisty, propulsive thriller" (Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author) from Megan Collins, two sisters-in-law are at painful odds when the man who connects them--the brother of one, the husband of the other--is accused of a brutal crime. Julia and Sienna...
Coma
Cook, Robin
Paper Book
Considered one of the best books of the genre--and the book that launched Robin Cook 's career, earning him the reputation as the master of the medical thriller--Coma celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication with this special mass market edition that includes a letter to readers from the...
Early riser
Fforde, Jasper
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller The latest standalone novel from Jasper Fforde, the bestselling author the Thursday Next series and the forthcoming standalone The Constant Rabbit Every Winter, the human population hibernates. ...
Sleeping beauties : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be now,...
Death's end
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War...
My year of rest and relaxation
Moshfegh, Ottessa
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller<...
A winter in New York : a novel
Silver, Josie
Paper Book
A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December. A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
California Bear : a novel
Swierczynski, Duane
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER This "fresh, exciting, and brilliantly unpredictable" thriller (James Patterson) from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly) follows four unlikely vigilantes who pit themselves against the villain behind California's coldest case when they...
Husbands & lovers : a novel
Williams, Beatriz
Paper Book
Two women--separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom--reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. "My favorite kind of page-turner--unputdownable!"-...

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